At first sight from the boat, Far per look like the lost paradise of the world

What can you do for 3 nights and 2 days on a boat from

Iceland to Denmark, stopping over the Far Oer Islands only for six hours before starting to sail again? We were all wandering this in the ghost town of Seydisfjordur, on the East Coast of Iceland, on Wednesday, when we were waiting for the ferry to go. We were cold, and the town was just absorbed by fog since the morning. Nothing to be seen, nobody around, nothing really worthed attention except the friendly kindness of a gentleman, Eythor Thorisson who owned a bar in town and offered us a beer brewed by himself. The bar was cosy and the beer was good, and the most amazing clock ever was hanged on the wall.

First sight of the first villages of the Far Oer

The 3 nights have been indeed long. Same for the days. The ocean has cradled our sleep and we all have recovered from the tiredness and cold of the first days on the road. As per tradition, I got a terrible sore throat on my first days here, and it has been good to sleep long and warm an have time to recover. It has been boring as well. On a boat the time is slow and the awareness to have to be here for 3 nights didn’t help to speed it up. In the morning we all slept until late, and in the evening we all stayed up till very late, playing cards or reading books, or just chatting. Going out on the deck at night is like being in the black sky. Deep Darkness is surrounding everything and the boat seems going alone in the night, like a space shuttle.On the first morning on the boat we had the sweetest of all the surprises appearing just in front of us from the silence of the ocean: the Far Oer islands.

Admiring how they appear and desappear from your sight is the must stunning thing on the boat from Iceland to Denmark

Admiring how they appeared and they got closer and bigger, how their stunning beauty erupted in our eyes, admiring the shapes of the cliffs, the waterfalls coming down of them, and small villages hidden between the valleys was like admiring the creation of the world.

Another view of one of the 18 isles of the Far Oer

The nature was simply exploding of life and untouched beauty. I felt like a spectator on this boat, yesterday. In silent I couldn’t believe I was finally there ad that it was one of the most beautiful sceneries I had ever seen. Arriving by boat made the difference. It was like watching a show, a wonderful show that was slowly revealing all its hidden beauty on a film developing in front of me and making me feel alive right there. The show went on for hours, crossing the sea in the middle of the 18 islands composing it.

I will come back to the Far Oer for sure, I want to explore all those tiny villages I saw appearing at the feet of the mountains, meet who live there, see how it is a life in a village with 10 houses in the middle of the sea. It was extraordinary to watch where the human being can settle and find the happiness. When the boat stopped in Torshavn, I couldn’t believe it could actually be so “big”, compared to the rest seen until that moment, and so beautiful. It was like being arrived in a fairytale town, with its Christmas lights and atmosphere still on, the tiny roads, most of the houses with the roof made of grass, the happy people around, the ids looking like elves and heir funny language, a sweet mix of Icelandic and Norwegian that makes you love them at first sight. By night, it’s enchanting and watching it from the top of the boat made me feel sad to leave.

Another village lost in space and time among the Far Oer wilderness

So it was, unfortunately, and from there 2 more nights on a boat had to pass before we put our feet on the ground again, in Denmark.It will be weird to arrive there tomorrow, crossing it during the day and find each other already in Germany tomorrow. The Nordic world will be already gone, together with the first week of this trip that is already amazing. For the rest of the week it will be motorway, crossing Europe and trying to leave the cold as soon as possible, reaching Spain already by the end of next week.Then it will be Africa, finally, the real beginning for all of us. We just need to get out of this boat now.